Faultline Online Reporter

Published 6th April 2017

News outlets ramping up streaming tech, PA buys StreamAMG

This week, the PA Group, the parent company of UK provider of multimedia content and services provider, the Press Association, has acquired a 61% stake in video streaming company StreamAMG to support its customers’ adoption of online news streaming. The rapidly rising quality of web-based news is a cause for concern for the traditional linear news outlets, particularly news sources begin this process of buying up technology vendors. StreamAMG’s technologies cover live streaming, web casting and VoD services for business sectors including sport, education, media and the public sector, delivering content to multiple screens via its HTML5 video player. Its cloud-based media platform is built on the open source Kaltura CE (Community Edition) framework, delivered via CDNs from Akamai, Level3…